Activity
Activity shows a full list of activities and events that have occurred on your site. Free plans are limited to viewing only the past 20 events, whereas WordPress.com paid plans have access to their complete site activity.
Type of Activities Recorded
The events stored in your site’s Activity include:
- Published or updated posts and pages.
- Comment submission and management activity.
- Theme switches.
- Settings and options modifications.
- And more. See the full list.
Viewing Your Site's Activity
To view the Activity for your site, go to Jetpack → Activity Log from the left sidebar of your site dashboard.

You’ll now be able to view the recent events recorded for your site. It looks like this:

Only the most recent 1,000 events are displayed in Activity. The timestamp displayed in Activity matches the timezone you’ve set in your site’s settings (configured from Settings → General in your site’s dashboard).
Data Retention
The retention periods for Activity data depend on both the activity itself and the site’s plan.
Activity | Free | Personal (Legacy) | Premium (Legacy) | Business & eCommerce (Legacy) | Pro |
Users: additions, deletions, network deletions, registrations, invite acceptance, removals, updates | 30 days | 30 days | 30 days | Forever | Forever |
Attachments: uploads, updates, deletions | 30 days | 30 days | 30 days | Forever | Forever |
Comments: submissions, approvals, un-approvals, content edits, deletions, trash actions, spam/un-spam actions, restorations from trash | 30 days | 30 days | 30 days | Forever | Forever |
Feedback: Contact Form submissions | 30 days | 30 days | 30 days | Forever | Forever |
Settings: settings updates | 30 days | 30 days | 30 days | Forever | Forever |
Menus: additions, updates, deletions | 30 days | 30 days | 30 days | Forever | Forever |
Themes: theme activations | 30 days | 30 days | 30 days | Forever | Forever |
Posts & Pages: publish actions, updates, deletions, trash actions, imports, exports* | 30 days | 30 days | 30 days | Forever | Forever |
Widgets: additions, updates, removals, reorders, set-to-inactive actions | 30 days | 30 days | 30 days | Forever | Forever |
WordPress: plan activations/deactivations, new blog followers | Forever | Forever | Forever | Forever | Forever |
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At the end of any retention periods outlined above, activity data is moved to long-term storage and is retained indefinitely. Once in long-term storage, activity data will no longer be visible in a site’s Activity.
If there is no activity on your site for longer than the retention period, you’ll see a screen that looks like this:

Once you make any changes to your site that are recorded in your Activity, this screen will appear as normal.
Backups
This section of the guide applies to sites with our WordPress.com Pro plan. If your site has one of our legacy plans, it is available on Business and eCommerce.
Sites with a plugin-enabled plan have the option to restore their site to a previous version from Activity.